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In 1957, the Soviet Union launched Sputnik. Britain tested its first Hydrogen Bomb. Artists, including John Bratby, painted images of kitchen sinks. NGV curators ask the obvious question: why.
NGV curators ponder the inspiration behind Kenneth Armitage's culpture People in a Wind and his move away from grand symbolic gesture towards more of a commentary on everyday life.
NGV curators discuss Alfred Wallis’s painting The Steamer and his motivation to capture the sights of a disappearing way of life: Cornwell’s fishing and shipping traditions.
NGV curators discuss William Orpen’s The English Nude, considered a risqué image for Britain at this time. It is a bold painting, the naked woman gazing out at the viewer with frank sexuality.
NGV curators discuss Spencer Gore’s painting The Icknield Way which features a subject well known to English audiences: the Icknield Way is claimed to be the oldest road in Britain.
Discusses William Nicholson’s painting The Beautiful Motorist – here we see the modern woman, dressed in the lavish uniform of that new-fangled device, the motor car.
